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Did Humans Walk the Earth with Dinosaurs? Triceratops Horn Dated to 33,500 Years

A Triceratops brow horn discovered in Dawson County, Montana, has been controversially dated to around 33,500 years, challenging the view that dinosaurs died out around 65 million years ago. The finding radically suggests that early humans may have once walked the earth with the fearsome reptiles thousands of years ago.

The Triceratops brow horn was excavated in May 2012 and stored at the Glendive Dinosaur and Fossil Museum. The Museum, which has since 2005 been in cooperation with the Paleochronology Group, a team of consultants in geology, paleontology, chemistry, engineering, and education, sent a sample of the outer portion of the Triceratops brow horn to Head of the Paleochronology Group Hugh Miller, at his request, in order to carry out Carbon-14 dating. Mr Miller sent the sample to the University of Georgia, Center for Applied Isotope Studies, for this purpose. The sample was divided at the lab into two fractions with the “bulk” or collagen break down products yielding an age of 33,570 ± 120 years and the carbonate fraction of bone bioapatite yielding an age of 41,010 ± 220 years [UGAMS-11752 & 11752a]. Mr Miller told Ancient Origins that it is always desirable to carbon-14 date several fractions to minimize the possibility of errors which Miller requested and that essential concordance was achieved in the 1000's of years as with all bone fractions of ten other dinosaurs.

Triceratops, a name meaning “three-horned face”, is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsid dinosaur that is said to have first appeared during the late Maastrichtian stage of the late Cretaceous period, about 68 million years ago in what is now North America, and became extinct in the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event 66 million years ago. However, scientists from the Paleochronology Group, who perform research relating to “anomalies of science”, maintain that dinosaurs did not die out millions of years ago and that there is substantial evidence that they were still alive as recently as 23,000 years ago.

Until recently, Carbon-14 dating was never used to test dinosaur bones, as the analysis is only reliable up to 55,000 years. Scientists never considered it worthwhile to run the test since it is generally believed that dinosaurs have been extinct for 65 million years, based on radiometric dating of the volcanic layers above or below fossils, a method which the Paleochronology Group states has “serious problems and gross assumptions must be made”.

"It became clear years ago that paleontologists were not just neglecting to test dinosaur bones for C-14 content but were refusing to. Normally a good scientist will be curious about the ages of important fossil bones,” Mr Miller told Ancient Origins in an email.

YouTube video explaining results of carbon testing on dinosaur bones

The results of the Triceratops Horn analysis are not unique. According to Mr Miller, numerous C-14 tests have now been carried out on dinosaur bones, and surprisingly, they all returned results dating back in the thousands rather than millions of years.

“I organized the Paleochronology group in 2003 to fill a void with regards fossil wood and dinosaur bones as I was curious as to their age by C-14 dating. We thus have used C-14 dating to solve the mystery why soft tissue and dinosaur depictions exist world-wide. Our model predicted dinosaur bones would have significant C-14 and indeed they did in the range of 22,000 to 39,000 years BP,” Mr Miller added.

Numerous independent researchers have long argued that there is evidence man and dinosaur once walked the Earth together, such as hundreds of ancient artworks and artifacts that appear to depict dinosaurs, long before modern science had pieced together dinosaur fossils and conducted analyses to produce detailed reconstructions of their appearance.

However, even more intriguing is the discovery of soft tissue in dinosaur fossils. In the March 2005 issue of Science , paleontologist Mary Schweitzer and her team announced the discovery of soft tissue inside a 68-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex leg bone from the Hell Creek Formation in Montana, a controversial finding considering scientists had thought soft tissue proteins degrade in less than 1 million years in the best of conditions. After recovery, the tissue was rehydrated by the science team and testing revealed evidence of intact structures such as blood vessels, bone matrix, and connective tissue.

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Hold on a moment - the date may be perfectly valid but lots of extinct animals in the Paleolithic had enormous horns and this horn could easily belong to a more modern extinct animal such as an Auroch (Bos Primigenious) or antique Woolly Rhinoceros (Decerotini) what evidence (like the skull) confirms this is a tricerotops ? Anyone who's done A level Archaeology knows this. European Cave paintings show these animals alive 20,000 years ago, why didn't anyone think of this? D'oh!

Your completely right! The first remains of ceratopsian dinosaurs ( triceratops and it's kin) were of their horns, which looked almost exactly like that of buffalo. That's why the first remains attributed to triceratops were called "Bison alticornis".

I have worked on bison horns and skulls and the second I saw that picture, I knew it was a Pleistocene bison horn. Anyone educated in paleontology knows that is not a triceratops horn - not even close. And, there is no evidence of dinosaurs above the KT boundary, except for chickens. :)

There was no evidence of advanced civilization before 6,000 BC ether. Until one day there was, i.e., Gobekli Tepe, and now, Gunung Padang. Certainly now that the door has been opened, more and more will be found, until it is plentiful.

It was not lack of evidence that kept such ancient civilizations from becoming known. It was theoretical preconceptions, and the resulting lack of anyone actually looking for the evidence that was, and is, there.

Meanwhile, this horn was found in the same strata containing vast numbers of other dinosaur remains. If it is a bison horn, it still poses some rather serious questions, therefore. Like, what is it doing among all those dinos?
Meanwhile, actual contiguous triceratops bones have since been freed from the rock, so it doesn't seem to be much in doubt that it is, in fact, a triceratops horn and not that of a bison, educations in paleontology notwithstanding. Especially as they seem to come complete with large doses of confirmation bias and a rather debilitating set of blinders.

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